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They're not actually making $250k each. Keep in mind that this includes employer taxes and benefits, which add up very quickly.

ryandrake 10y ago
OK, so $200k in salary then. Still stupendously good. WOW! Maybe there _IS_ something to all these "I know this guy who's brother's roommate makes $300K at Google" threads. It just seems so unbelievable.
- sosborn 10y ago
  From what I've been told, take the employee's salary and multiply by 2 to get the actual cost to the company.
  - softawre 10y ago
    To hire them, maybe. To employ them (after the cost of recruiting), it's more like 30% on top of salary.
- rrdharan 10y ago
  I'm surprised that there remains so much disbelief regarding these figures. There are a plenty of people at large software companies in Silicon Valley who are paid well north of $300k. https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Google-Senior-Staff-Software-Engineer-Salaries-E9079_D_KO7,37.htm https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Google-Senior-Staff-Softwar... https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Dropbox-Engineer-Salaries-E415350_D_KO8,16.htm https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Dropbox-Engineer-Salaries-E... https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Facebook-Staff-Software-Engineer-Salaries-E40772_D_KO9,32.htm https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Facebook-Staff-Software-Eng...
  - Swizec 10y ago
    Google has thousands of engineers. How many "senior staff software engineers"? "This estimate is based upon 18 Google Senior Staff Software Engineer salary reports" "This estimate is based upon 1 Dropbox Engineer salary report" "This estimate is based upon 1 Facebook Staff Software Engineer salary report" So we're looking at salaries of 20 engineers. There are how many thousand engineers in the Bay Area? I don't think your data is statistically significant. I'm not saying these people don't exist. I'm saying they're not as common as these companies would like us to believe.
    - ryandrake 10y ago
      Yea, I always understood those Super Senior Staff Software Engineer roles at these top companies are for the rare "I invented the TCP in TCP/IP" people, not the more common "third average software engineer from the left".
      - vostok 10y ago
        This is an incorrect understanding. I personally know someone at Google who is nowhere near "I invented the TCP in TCP/IP" and they make >$300k (but not much more) with just a few years of experience.

ryandrake 10y ago

OK, so $200k in salary then. Still stupendously good. WOW! Maybe there _IS_ something to all these "I know this guy who's brother's roommate makes $300K at Google" threads. It just seems so unbelievable.

sosborn 10y ago
From what I've been told, take the employee's salary and multiply by 2 to get the actual cost to the company.
- softawre 10y ago
  To hire them, maybe. To employ them (after the cost of recruiting), it's more like 30% on top of salary.
rrdharan 10y ago
I'm surprised that there remains so much disbelief regarding these figures. There are a plenty of people at large software companies in Silicon Valley who are paid well north of $300k. https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Google-Senior-Staff-Software-Engineer-Salaries-E9079_D_KO7,37.htm https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Google-Senior-Staff-Softwar... https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Dropbox-Engineer-Salaries-E415350_D_KO8,16.htm https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Dropbox-Engineer-Salaries-E... https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Facebook-Staff-Software-Engineer-Salaries-E40772_D_KO9,32.htm https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Facebook-Staff-Software-Eng...
- Swizec 10y ago
  Google has thousands of engineers. How many "senior staff software engineers"? "This estimate is based upon 18 Google Senior Staff Software Engineer salary reports" "This estimate is based upon 1 Dropbox Engineer salary report" "This estimate is based upon 1 Facebook Staff Software Engineer salary report" So we're looking at salaries of 20 engineers. There are how many thousand engineers in the Bay Area? I don't think your data is statistically significant. I'm not saying these people don't exist. I'm saying they're not as common as these companies would like us to believe.
  - ryandrake 10y ago
    Yea, I always understood those Super Senior Staff Software Engineer roles at these top companies are for the rare "I invented the TCP in TCP/IP" people, not the more common "third average software engineer from the left".
    - vostok 10y ago
      This is an incorrect understanding. I personally know someone at Google who is nowhere near "I invented the TCP in TCP/IP" and they make >$300k (but not much more) with just a few years of experience.